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On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 11:46:56AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> I've got this very wierd situation going on...
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> One of my amd64 (zippy) boxes mounts /usr/obj via NFS from the other=20
> box (quicky).  Both are currently running 4.99.18, so it's time to=20
> update to more -current.
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> So, I log in on zippy, and attempt to copy the newest kernel file from
> the NFS-mounted /usr/obj/... filesystem to my root filesystem.  It=20
> promptly creates the output file but then immediately hangs hard.  So=20
> hard that I can't even do an 'ls -l /' command from another session!
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> Attempting to figure out where the problem is, I've reboot both the NFS=
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> server as well as the client.  No improvement - hangs in the same place.
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> I've done the following tests
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> 	cp /2MB-file /2MB-copy           Succeeds
> 	cp /2MB-file /dev/null           Succeeds
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> 	cp /usr/obj/2KB-file /2KB-copy   Succeeds
> 	cp /usr/obj/2KB-file /dev/null   Succeeds
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> 	cp /usr/obj/2MB-file /dev/null   Succeeds
> 	cp /usr/obj/2MB-file /2MB-copy   Fails
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> I haven't yet tried copy in the local-FS --> NFS direction yet, but so=20
> far this problem seems to affect only copying of large files from the=20
> NFS file system to the local fs.  (I'm currently running memtestplus=20
> just to eliminate the possibility of memory failure.)
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> Any clues on what's wrong?  Or what else I can do to help narrow this=20
> down?

tcpdump and see what goes on.  It might be as simple as a MTU issue, or
indeed a kernel bug.  You can play with the mount options anyway,
reducing the nfs packet size, switching to TCP, that kind of stuff.

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Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"You could have made it, spitting out benchmarks
Owe it to yourself not to fail"
Amplifico, Spitting Out Benchmarks, Hometakes Vol. 2, 2005.

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